Larry Hughes done for the year; NBA trade talks

News today is that Cleveland's biggest free agent pickup Larry Hughes might be done for the rest of the regular season... with a broken finger. Hughes had surgery on January 6 and was supposed to miss 6-8 weeks, but it's not recovering as qucikly expected, so he will miss an additional 8-10 weeks, which seems a little excessive for a broken finger, but maybe that's just me. But maybe I'm just upset because this hurts my fantasy team. Hughes was averaging 16.2 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game this year.

Also in the NBA, trade talks are heating up. The Sonics and Paper Clips made a swap of Chris Wilcox and Vladamir Radmanovic. I like the deal for both teams. Radman's outside shooting should help LA, while Wilcox is a young, athletic big guy. My only concern is that Radman is a free agent at the end of the year, and Donald Sterling is still the owner of the Clippers, so that could get interesting.

Also a couple of rumors floating around right now, both involving the Orlando Magic. One potential deal involves Orlando and the New York Knicks, which involves some combination of Steve Francis and possibly Kelvin Cato to the Knicks for Penny Hardaway's expiring contract, Jamal Crawford, and maybe Trevor Ariza.

However, Kelvin Cato is also part of a rumored deal between Orlando and Detroit, which would send Darko Milicic and Carlos Arroyo to the Magic for Kelvin Cato and the Magic draft pick, a deal that is interesting on many different levels. Ian over at Sweaty Man Endeavors wrote about this in much more detail.

Either way, should be a very interesting time before the deadline. Because we all know there is one guarantee in the NBA: Isiah Thomas will make a bad trade. I'm interested to see what it is this year.